Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communal ownership of the means of production, especially of natural resources "as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we all utterly depend...
...that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive concessions to Stadium venders, publishes a magazine, and sells ads in it. Upon the success of this large-scale commercial venture the rest of the sports depend for finances. It is ridiculous to draw a line just short of the microphone and to declare that beyond that limit lies "commercialization...
...total to date: six) his mimeograph whirled faster and hotter. Last year he decided to switch to making smelter linings, hired a ceramics engineer to take charge, was sure he could get a $50,000 loan in the name of National Defense. When RFC indicated that any loan would depend upon continued employment of the engineer, Miller fired the engineer, lost the loan, turned the mimeograph faster & faster. His interpretation: RFC was trying to get control of his plant by using the engineer...
Black and Ewing don't know exactly where they are going when their junk is finished. That will depend upon the sailing qualities of their craft (Chinese Junks weather typhoons, says Black). If the first Chinese Junk ever to be built in Cambridge is not very seaworthy, it will still look pretty on the Charles. If it is a real sailor, maybe they will sail away and startle fishing captains on Brown's Bank...
...would be no exaggeration to say that the future existence of democratic government for perhaps hundreds of years -the future existence of political freedom and individual liberty, the future existence of private capitalism and human decency-may all depend upon the degree of success attained by that group...